Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Sculptured / Cast group
- District
- St Helens
- Town
- Prescot
- County
- Merseyside
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 23rd July 1922
Attended by: Bishop of Liverpool
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 1236
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Current location
Opposite The Wellington Public House
Eccleston Lane Ends
St Helens Road (A58)/ Burrows Lane junction
Prescot
St Helens
Merseyside
L34 2QA
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 47380 93311
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Battered Portland stone column on a three-step sandstone base, surmounted by a cast bronze figure of an Army officer in full battlefield uniform looking into the distance, holding binoculars in his left hand and his pistol in his right hand, whilst on the steps below the column a cast figure of a woman stretches out her right hand which is holding a laurel branch, the tip of which touches the officer's foot, which is resting on a German pickelhaube helmet. Around the top of the column runs a cast bronze frieze depicting four military scenes in semi-relief - to the front a troop of marching soldiers; then a group of airmen readying a biplane for a sortie; to the rear a group of soldiers with camels; then a gun crew loading a naval gun. A quotation runs round the column beneath the frieze. The main inscription is incised on a marble tablet on the front of the column.
- Inscription
- On the tablet: To the glorious memory/ of all those from the/ West Derby Hundred of/ the County Palatine of/ Lancaster who fought/ & gave their lives for/ their King and Country in/ the Great War 1914 - 1918 / THIS MEMORIAL IS ERECTED BY F R DIXON NUTTALL JP INGLEHOLME Around the frieze: The laurels of the/ sons are watered/ from the hearts/ of the mothers
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Column
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Portland - Figures
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze
- Column
- Listing information
- West Derby War Memorial
- Grade II*
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- WEST DERBY HUNDRED OF THE COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER STATUE
- WMO ID: 108047
- Condition: Poor [last updated on 26-10-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Private
- Responsibility
- Eccleston Parish Council
- Reference
- Background to the memorial: www.prescot-rollofhonour.info/lane_ends_memorial
- St. Helen's Leader, published on 14/02/1985
- St. Helen's Reporter, published on 08/02/1985
- FOR YOUR TOMORROW: BRITISH SECOND WORLD WAR MEMORIALS by BOORMAN, DEREK 100 Source: Image Library NIWM Published:SESSIONS 1995 YORK
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